I look after a small group of feral cats. Of this year's litters, most have scattered. I found a home for Robert, the sweetest of the lot.
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Remove the friendliest 20% from a population each generation and you're selecting for unfriendliness pretty darn effectively.
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Replying to @TyphonBaalAmmon @St_Rev
that's just 'tameness', tho. 'friendliness' seems...broader.
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Replying to @TyphonBaalAmmon @palecur
Socialization is the difference btw a feral and a domestic cat. That's environment: mostly exposure as a kitten.
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Temperament--stuff we'd call personality traits in humans, like neuroticism, extraversion etc.--is mostly genetic.
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Temperament affects how good a pet a cat will be, and whether you can get close enough to adopt it at all.
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